John Dewey

As long as politics is the shadow cast on society by big business, the attenuation of the shadow will not change the substance.

Legislation is a matter of more or less intelligent improvisation aiming at palliating conditions by means of patchwork policies.

So we are always esthetically disappointed when the sensuous qualities and the intellectual properties of an object do not coalesce.

While they denounce as subversive anarchy signs of independent thought, of thinking for themselves on the part of others lest such thought disturb the conditions by which they profit, they think quite literally for themselves, that is of themselves.

Even the eye that is artificially trained to see color as color, apart from things that colors qualify, cannot shut out the resonances and transfers of value.

What happens in the movement of art is emergence of new materials of experience demanding expression, and therefore involving in their expression new forms and techniques.

Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.

Art expresses, it does not state; it is concerned with existences in their perceived qualities, not with conceptions symbolized in terms.

Democracy means the belief that humanistic culture should prevail.

This intelligence-testing business reminds me of the way they used to weigh hogs in Texas. They would get a long plank, put it over a cross-bar, and somehow tie the hog on one end of the plank. They'd search all around till they found a stone that would balance the weight of the hog and they'd put that on the other end of the plank. Then they'd guess the weight of the stone.